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There are concerns that maintenance work at Belfast’s Milltown Cemetery could disrupt unmarked graves of babies. For a long time, the cemetery was a mass burial site for stillborn infants, individuals who died by suicide, and those unable to afford burial plots elsewhere.

Nuala Mc Allister MLA stated to the BBC that she “is not going to let this rest.”

‘No Confidence’
“Unless there is full transparency with everything that is going on, I have no confidence,” said Ms McAllister.

“When it comes to how we deal with the past, the way in which the Catholic Church, in particular, dealt with women in childbirth, with stillborn babies, I am yet to be convinced that everything that is going on here has had the correct analysis and the correct parameters on which analysis should actually take place.

“I am not going to let this rest, this affects me personally, it affects my mum and it affects so many mothers across Northern Ireland,” she added.

Ms McAllister said she had raised the issue with the Department for Communities and the first and deputy first minister’s office.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-68604549